The Works of Flavius Josephus: The Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian and Celebrated Warrior. With Three Dissertations, Concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, God's Command to Abraham, &c. and Explanatory Notes and ObservationArmstrong and Plaskitt, and Plaskitt & Company, 1835 - 648 pages |
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... nature , and an immovable virtuous resolution in them all . I yielded to this man's persuasions , who always excites such as have abilities in what is useful and acceptable to join their endeavours with his . I was also ashamed myself ...
... nature , and an immovable virtuous resolution in them all . I yielded to this man's persuasions , who always excites such as have abilities in what is useful and acceptable to join their endeavours with his . I was also ashamed myself ...
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... nature ; and , upon the contemplation of God's operations , should thereby imitate the best of all patterns , so far as it is possible for human nature to do , and to endeavour to follow after it ; neither could the legislator himself ...
... nature ; and , upon the contemplation of God's operations , should thereby imitate the best of all patterns , so far as it is possible for human nature to do , and to endeavour to follow after it ; neither could the legislator himself ...
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... nature might hereafter go on in its former orderly course ; and that he would not bring on so great a judgment any more , by which the whole race of creatures might be in danger of destruction ; but that , hav- ing now punished the ...
... nature might hereafter go on in its former orderly course ; and that he would not bring on so great a judgment any more , by which the whole race of creatures might be in danger of destruction ; but that , hav- ing now punished the ...
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... nature , that she did not scruple to afford a suf- ficiency of water to those that wanted it , though it cost her some pains to draw it ; and asked who were her parents , and wished them joy of such a daughter ; and mayest thou be ...
... nature , that she did not scruple to afford a suf- ficiency of water to those that wanted it , though it cost her some pains to draw it ; and asked who were her parents , and wished them joy of such a daughter ; and mayest thou be ...
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... nature . He begged of them there fore not to kill their brother with their own hands , but to cast him into the pit ... natural way neither . So he entreated them to have a regard to their own consciences , and wisely to consider what ...
... nature . He begged of them there fore not to kill their brother with their own hands , but to cast him into the pit ... natural way neither . So he entreated them to have a regard to their own consciences , and wisely to consider what ...
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Page 235 - ... for that he would conduct my army, and would give me the dominion over the Persians; whence it is, that having seen no other in that habit, and now seeing this person in it, and remembering that vision, and the exhortation which I had in my dream, I believe that I bring this army under the divine conduct, and shall therewith conquer Darius, and destroy the power of the Persians, and that all things will succeed according to what is in my own mind.
Page 322 - ... the valley was very deep, and its bottom could not be seen, if you looked from above into the depth, this...
Page 98 - Canaan,) he dismissed the senate; and as he was going to embrace Eleazar and Joshua, and was still discoursing with them, a cloud stood over him on the sudden, and he disappeared in a certain valley, although he wrote in the holy books that he died, which was done out of fear lest they should venture to say, that because of his extraordinary virtue he went to God.
Page 165 - God also enabled him to learn that skill which expels demons, which is a science useful and sanative to men. He composed such incantations also by which distempers are alleviated. And he left behind him the manner of using exorcisms, by which they drive away demons, so that they never return, and this method of cure is of great force unto this day...
Page 29 - There is a great mountain in Armenia, over Minyas, called Baris, upon which it is reported that many who fled at the time of the Deluge were saved; and that one who was carried in an ark came on shore upon the top of it; and that the remains of the timber were a great while preserved. This might be the man about whom Moses the legislator of the Jews wrote.
Page 165 - ... about ; for when by my subjects I have cut down many and large trees of cedar and cypress wood, I will send them to sea, and will order my subjects to make floats of them, and to sail to what place soever of thy country thou...
Page 322 - Now in the western quarters of the enclosure of the temple there were four gates; the first led to the king's palace, and went to a passage over the intermediate valley; two more led to the suburbs of the city; and the last led to the other city, where the road descended down into the valley by a great number of steps, and thence up again by the ascent...
Page 271 - I would now explain is this, that the Pharisees have delivered to the people a great many observances by succession from their fathers, which are not written in the law of Moses ; and for that reason it is that the Sadducees reject them, and say, that we are to esteem those observances to be obligatory which are in the written word, but are not to observe what are derived from the tradition of our forefathers.
Page 29 - God afforded them a longer time of life on account of their virtue, and the good use they made of it in astronomical and geometrical discoveries, which would not have afforded the time of foretelling [the periods of the stars] unless they had lived six hundred years; for the great year is completed in that interval.
Page 225 - Jerusalem : but then the entire body of the people of Israel remained in that country, wherefore there are but two tribes in Asia and Europe, subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond Euphrates till now, and are an immense multitude, and not to be estimated by numbers.